Trafalgar Law

Trafalgar Law (トラファルガー・ロー) is a character from the anime/manga series One Piece. His real name is Trafalgar D. Water Law (トラファルガー・D・ウォーター法). Law is an infamous rookie pirate in the Worst Generation and a former Shichibukai. He is the last survivor of the North Blue, Flevance. He is the Captain of the Heart Pirates. He is known as the "Surgeon of Death". He is 26 years old. His current bounty is approximately 3,000,000,000 berries, alongside Monkey D. Luffy and Eustass Kid when they defeat Big Mom and Kaido.

Law is a thin young man with tanned skin and short dark hair. He has tattoos on his arms and his chest. He also has the letters D,E,A,T, and H tattooed on his right fingers, spelling Death. Law wears a yellow shirt and a blue cloak with fluffy fur collar. He wears the traditional Northern hat, but his has an animal print on it, along with his jeans. He has light shadows under both of is eyes. He also wears piercings on both of his ears.

Law is a smart and calculative man. He is patient and waits for his moment to strike. Law does not smile as much, displaying a more cautious, observing expression on his face. In fact, he tends to only smirk when feeling pleased that a plan went as intended or while attempting to provoke an enemy. That being said, Law has a bolder attitude when faced against other infamous pirates, especially his peers from the Worst Generation. For example, he casually asked X Drake how many people he had slain in his very first appearance and had no qualms about rudely gesturing to Eustass Kid, the most wanted rookie pirate on the Sabaody Archipelago who had a reputation for killing people for the most minor of reasons, even smiling defiantly when doing so. Law has also done this same gesture towards Donquixote Doflamingo both to provoke and display his contempt for his former captain, despite being close to death and threatened at gunpoint at the time. Reflecting this boldness, Law self-admittedly hates being ordered around; however, he is reasonable enough to understand when his immediate crew and are in a pinch, not being above resorting to brief alliances with rivals if it meant survival. Surprisingly, belying his usual cool attitude, Law can be quite prideful and even childishly competitive, particularly when next to Luffy and Kid. He also appears to dislike bread.

Law is the user of a Devil Fruit called the Ope Ope no Mi which allows him to create a spherical territory of light blue aura.

In this territory, he is able to spatially separate and displace anything and everything within (including himself), referred to as being able to "operate" on anything within the spherical "operating room". Easily one of the most versatile Devil Fruits in existence, with his powers, Law is easily capable of wreaking massive havoc within the area he controls. He is also able to use it for teleportation purposes. He has also shown to be able to apply his ability for medical purposes, as seen when he cured the giant children of their addiction brought on by Caesar's drugs. Law seems to have mastered his power to such an extent, that he can even cut through someone who has fully imbued their body in Haki. Law's offensive abilities lie in his swordsmanship, demonstrated by his expert use of a sword nearly as tall as him, though he is seen able to defend himself without it using the abilities of his Devil Fruit. In contrast to the traditional swordsman's ranged slashes, Law's sword slashes do not travel, but merely provide the slashing effect, while his spatial manipulation within his Room provides the range.

He can dismember people without harming them and join separate parts together in any way he sees fit. Law was born in the country of Flevance in the North Blue, which was known as the "White City" because of the color of the Amber Lead that was mined there. He lived there with his parents, who were doctors and were also training him, and his younger sister. Law's childhood coincided with the time when the symptoms of Amber Lead poisoning were at their peak within the country, and he was doomed to die before reaching adulthood. The kingdom was at war with neighboring countries who mistakenly believed the disease to be contagious. The World Government and the royal family knew about the disease beforehand, but did not reveal this information to the public even as the symptoms were becoming more noticeable. His parents were doing their best to help the people, but could not do much without the proper supplies. Furthermore, Law's sister, who was in an advanced stage of the disease, was slowly dying. A local nun was collecting children to be taken off the island during the war and offered Law to go with her. He refused because he didn't want to leave his sister behind, but the nun promised to come back for him.

However, his parents were shot by an extermination team before his very eyes. The nun and his friends were also killed in the raid and his parents' hospital was burned down with his sister inside during the destruction of the country. An emotionally shattered Law managed to escape the quarantine by hiding under corpses being sent out of the city. Having lost everything and a grievance levied against all his loved ones, Law became nihilistic and omnicidal, wishing to destroy as much of the world as he could without believing in anything else. From there he arrived at a port city, Spider Miles, approached the Donquixote Pirates and asked Doflamingo to let him join while strapping himself with bombs. With the time he had, Law wanted to destroy as much as he could. While talking to Clover and Diamond, Law explained that he had about three years left to live and reminded them of what their goals were. Afterwards, Law met Corazon and showed indifference to their clumsiness. Shortly after Law was informed that Corazon hated children, the executive threw Law out the window. Law, who had survived the fall, became angry at being treated this way out of the blue and vowed to kill him.

He impassively watched as Corazon burned after accidentally setting his feather cloak on fire while lighting a cigarette. At a pizza feast, Lao G told Law about the crew's blood law and Doflamingo warned him not to lay a hand on Corazon. The crew then discovered that Law was sick with Amber Lead Disease, and Jora incorrectly thought the disease was contagious. Doflamingo corrected her. Doflamingo then asked Law if there were any other survivors. Law replied that he did not know and revealed that he escaped Flevance's extermination by hiding in a pile of corpses, causing Gladius to choke. Law then declared that he no longer believed in anything and would take revenge on Corazon. Baby 5 patted him on the head and warned him of the consequences, which included torture. Law simply stared at Baby 5, causing her to cry. Later, while most of the crew was attacking and arguing about Law's past, Law sneaked up on Corazon while he was alone and stabbed him in the back. However, he was seen by Buffalo, who was shocked to see Law breaking the crew's blood law. To get his way, Law bribed Buffalo with ice cream.

However, Law was still a bit worried about Buffalo's trustworthiness, so he attempted to flee, but was caught by Jora and Machvise, who brought him to Doflamingo. Law realized that Corazon was not dead, and believed that he had informed his brother that he (Law) had impaled him. Doflamingo announced that he had decided to officially welcome Law into the Donquixote Pirates. Law was surprised that Corazon did not simply write something down to tell Doflamingo what had happened. Law reminded Doflamingo that he would die in less than three years, but Doflamingo went on to explain that his "family" dealt with underworld business and told Law of a chance for survival: obtaining a Devil Fruit power that could heal him. He further explained that if Law was lucky enough to find one before his lifespan expired, he would raise him and train him to be his right-hand man in ten years. Doflamingo then noticed Corazon's wound and Corazon informed him that he was attacked by an enemy. For the next two years, Doflamingo explained his plans as they traveled and committed acts of piracy while Law became annoyed by Corazon's constant clumsiness and fell for practical jokes.

Law has occasionally gotten carried away by their carefree "pace" and was shocked when he realized it. However, Law has a high opinion of the Straw Hat Pirates, stating that they were a group capable of miracles. Nami once stated that Law was almost as reckless as Luffy, doing whatever he wanted and never listening to anyone. Law does not refer to some of them by their names. He either uses their epithet, such as calling Luffy "Strawhat-ya" or Sanji "Blackleg-ya", or he uses his own made-up nicknames, such as calling Usopp "Nose-ya", Franky "Robo-ya", and Brook "Bone-ya". However, he does refer to Zoro and Nami by their given names, calling them Zoro-ya and Nami-ya, and to Chopper and Robin by their surnames, calling them Tony-ya and Nico-ya.